Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-ACC-2019-009
Judith Howard Whitney-Terry served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Honduras from September 1987 to December 1988 on a small business project. She decided to join after raising a family, a divorce, and changing circumstances related to her business. After in-country training, she was assigned to Choluteca where she worked with small businesses to develop business plans and accounting practices, which utilized her degrees and prior work experience. She also taught English as a Second Language (ESL) in the evenings. She then transferred to Tegucigalpa where she was able to travel around the country while working for the banks. Whitney-Terry discusses her informal interaction with Contras, and shares that Peace Corps volunteers were thought of more positively than other Americans. She mentions that the local volunteers were invited to a party some distance away on the night that the U.S. embassy in Tegucigalpa was bombed. Whitney-Terry discusses how her Peace Corps experience made her less self-centered and more conscious of how people live throughout the world. She also met her second husband through RPCV activities and continues to be involved in the National Peace Corps Association. Interviewed and recorded by Evelyn Ganzglass, August 23, 2018. 2 digital audio files (web streaming files combined into 1 file).